THE TRIAL OF ALEX HENSON

The Trial of Alex Henson contains the actual transcript of a high profile criminal case tried in an East Texas town in 1953. Henson was accused of a late-night burglary of the private residence of a prominent physician and assaulting that physician's wife with a gun while the doctor was away on an emergency call. Henson was Black and his alleged victim was white. The case stirred the emotions of both the white and the Black communities. The whites were outraged that a Black man had allegedly com